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Archive for July, 2008
Summer Hiatus
Posted in News and Opinion on 24 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How I Track the Patently Funny
Posted in Government, Humor, Law and Order, Legal System, tagged editors, freelance writers, Government, Humor, law on 23 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wacky Patent of the Month
I once knew a fellow who claimed to have invented an automobile engine that could operate without fuel.
“Yeah? What happened?” I’d ask.
“Well the government didn’t want me to be successful, so they…”
From there, the story would always get a bit fuzzy. Darned Patent and Trademark Office, always putting the kibosh on clever [...]
How I Evade Sue-er Rats
Posted in Government, Law and Order, Legal System, tagged editers, freelance writers, Government, justice, law, Legal System on 22 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a confession: I have a law degree. It’s not something I share lightly, for I hold pretty much the same opinion you have of — if not most, then at least, some — lawyers. There are bad people in every walk of life, but attorneys and tax collectors have the peculiar capacity to destroy lives. [...]
How I Feed a Raw Need
Posted in Diet, Health, tagged Diet, editors, freelance writers, raw food, weight loss on 21 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nummy, nummy in my tummy…
I’ve been living the raw-food life — with an ocassional moment of cheating — since the first day of this blog.
Over the past two-and-a-half months, I’ve lost a considerable amount of weight, and have felt much, much healthier.
The investment was minimal: A $30 dehydrator off Craigslist, a blender, and a knife. But the [...]
How I Get Biblical
Posted in Research, Theology, tagged bible study, editors, freelance writers, religion, scriptures on 20 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The great thing about the Blue Letter Bible isn’t the large number of English translations, or the commentaries, or the links to related hymns — though those are all excellent. The wonder of BLB is the lexicon and concordance, which renders verses in Hebrew and Greek with transliterations and word-for-word translations to English.
See, for example, the [...]
How I Gas Up
Posted in Budgeting, Travel, Wealth, tagged cheap gas, editors, freelance writers, opec on 19 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looking to drive traffic to your web site? Here’s the secret, guaranteed.
Just make sure the topic of your web site is “Cheap Gasoline Locations.” Then get OPEC to double the price of oil. See how easy?
Well it works for Gas Buddy — the site that tracks the price of gasoline in your town, and in [...]
How I Soothe the Savage Beast
Posted in Entertainment, Media, tagged editors, freelance writers, Music, Pandora on 18 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All day today, I’ve been listening to Pandora — internet radio for the technologically inept.
Honestly, the whole Kazaa and ripping CDs and illegal downloads thing just baffles me. I don’t even wanna know.
But Pandora has music coming out my computer speakers for the first time in — well, ever. Today, it’s playing stations dedicated to [...]
How I Get Inspired
Posted in Education, Smart Thursdays, tagged adult education, editors, freelance writers, science, Technology on 17 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back to Smart Thursdays. Today’s installment: The Best Thinking from the Best Thinkers.
TED is an annual summit on — well, any subject that fascinates. It originally featured speeches by fascinating people from the worlds of Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Now it’s much more. Click the TEDTalks link on the left column of the web page to [...]
How I Listen to Literature
Posted in Academic Subjects, Education, Entertainment, Language, Media, The Arts, tagged audio, books, editors, freelance writers, literature on 16 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We love, love, love our local bibliothèque, and in particular, we love our books on tape.
But sometimes, getting to the library is a chore, and sometimes we just need to listen to something other than radio pop. So we turn to our good friend LibriVox.
LibriVox is home to hundreds and hundreds of books — classic, [...]
How I Get Happy
Posted in Entertainment, Music, The Arts, tagged editors, freelance writers, jazz, Music on 15 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ever have a really awful, terrible, no-good day? I did. Yesterday. But only for about a minute, because whenever I’m down, nobody gets me happy again like my guy Satchmo.
My boyfriend Louis Armstrong and I have been an item since, oh, about 1963. Watching him smile, or hearing him sing Hello Dolly, or Mack the [...]
How I Charge My Life
Posted in Budgeting, Wealth, tagged budgets, credit cards, editing, editors, financial planning, freelance writers, writing on 14 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some financial planners advise against credit cards. I say, balony. Credit cards are awesome. At least, one credit card is awesome. That’s the one I found on Bankrate. It gives me a cut of every dollar I spend. I get 3 percent back for my biggest expenditures – including my cell phone, utilities and other bills. Hey, [...]
How I Teach My Baby to Type
Posted in Academic Subjects, Birthdays, Education, Home and Family, Infolit, Technology, tagged computer skills, editors, freelance writers, information literacy, keyboarding on 12 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s another birthday. L’il One turns 10 today, and in her honor, Greenlance presents one of the basic life skills a ten-year-old needs to master: Keyboarding.
The BBC’s Dance Mat features animated characters such as a Scottish goat and an Italian octopus that teach typing skills to the younger set — and to adults who still [...]
How I Get Schooled
Posted in Education, Smart Thursdays, tagged adult education, college, editors, freelance writers, iTunes, learning, lectures, podcasts, Stanford University on 10 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m too old for school. But I’m never too old to learn. See, I figure that so long as I keep my brain engaged, I’ll never become a doddering old fool.
That’s why, beginning today, Greenlance will sponsor Smart Thursdays, wherein we feature a great resource for adult education.
Today’s featured site: Stanford on iTunes University. This is the one that [...]
How I Get 60mpg
Posted in Budgeting, Travel, Wealth, tagged cheap gas, cheapskates, driving, editors, freelance writers, mileage on 9 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Still driving an SUV? Not me. I just scored myself a ‘92 Geo Metro. Fifty mpg without even trying hard. But I can do better than that. I’ve learned extreme drivng — the cheapskate’s way to get super-high gas mileage.
Want to join me? Episode 49 (produced back in April, when gas was still sub-four-bucks a gallon) [...]
How I Sing a Song
Posted in Academic Subjects, Education, Entertainment, Home and Family, Music, Relationships, The Arts, tagged editors, family, FHE, freelance writers, Guitar, Lyrics, Music, Singing on 8 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mondays are for family night. Last evening we were joined by another family, and spent the time eating too much food and singing along with Guitar Man. Unfortunately, it turns out, we’re all a little elderly about remembering song lyrics and guitar chords.
No problem. Seems our computer has an excellent memory — because it knows how to [...]
How I Stay Married
Posted in Home and Family, Relationships, tagged communication, editors, family, freelance writers, marriage, Relationships on 7 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s tough, this business of making two lives one. Even though my better half is a good guy — and he is — marriage is hard work.
Lovegevity makes marriage just a little bit easier, with expert advice on improving communication, being grateful, and resolving problems. Yes, it’s totally a chick site — though there is a [...]
How I Observe the ‘-ites
Posted in Research, Theology, tagged Baptists, Catholicism, editors, freelance writers, Mormonism, religion, Wiccans on 6 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that Wicca is on track to be the US’ third-largest religion by 2012? Or that of the ten largest religious groups in the United States, only Catholicism is older than Mormonism? That’s right. Southern Baptists were organized fifteen years after the LDS church, and two years before the Lutheran’s Missouri Synod. None [...]
How I See Dead People
Posted in Genealogy, Home and Family, Research, tagged documents, editors, family history, freelance writers, records, search on 5 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Been looking for your great-grandparents? Relax. They’re buried in a granite vault in Utah.
For the past several decades, the world’s largest repository of family records has been cataloguing and filming every available record of human existence: more than three billion pages of census records, births, christenings, marriages, deaths…if anyone recorded it, the genealogists at the Vault have probably copied it.
And [...]
How I Get Compus Mentis
Posted in Government, Law and Order, Legal System, tagged courts, editors, freelance writers, law, legal on 4 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is it weird that I enjoy reading court cases? Naaah. Gossip about crime and civil suits is infinitely more amusing than the alternative: Gossip about celebrity misbehavior and impregnations.
If you, too, prefer Judge Judy to TMZ, you’ll relish JRank’s Law Library — an encyclopedia of quick-reading articles about virtually every important legal decision in US history.
Got a [...]
How I Get Clipped
Posted in Academic Subjects, Art, Education, tagged artwork, clipart, editors, freelance writers on 3 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I fancy myself a bit of an artist. Then I look at what actual artists do, and blush.
One of my favorite unsung pop artists is an obscure school teacher and graphic artist named Phillip Martin. I’ve been stalking his web sites for months now, just gazing at his whimsical drawings. So that you, too, [...]
How I Trend to Learn
Posted in Entertainment, Media, News and Opinion, Research, tagged editors, events, freelance writers, news, trends on 2 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muskrat. Capuchin. Goleta. All words I had to look up this past week, because Google Trends assured me they were suddenly popular as search terms.
Turns out muskrats were the proximate cause of some of the flooding in the Midwest. A zoo in Mississippi has a new baby monkey. And Goleta is a town near Santa [...]
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